ghoerz | 14 years ago | on: Dorm Room Design and Construction
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ghoerz | 15 years ago | on: Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency
Actually, bartering is already covered in the US tax code. You're supposed to claim the fair market value of the goods/ services you received as income.
ghoerz | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources?
Starting Strength is a good resource for learning proper weightlifting form and routines.
http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...
There is also a wiki covering some of the material with videos: http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Starting_Strength_Wik...
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs
Hacker's Diet Online has a nice graphing utility. It's much easier to see progress on the average than with daily fluctuations.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: HP explains why printer ink is so expensive
Exactly, and while you're at it, don't ask your barber if you need a haircut.
I'm sure the low ink warning is justified somewhere on the grounds of ensuring consistent quality, but as long as the prints come out good enough, print away.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which Firefox addons you can't live without
All-in-One Gestures saves me a good bit of time. It's the one addon I find myself missing when I'm not on my computer.
Using the scroll wheel to switch between tabs in the bar = priceless.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years
The issue with having individual fishing companies determining policies is that it invokes the tragedy of the commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
This is addressed in part by the Law of the Sea Treaty, but this only addresses waters out to 200 nautical miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_Sea_Treaty
Living resources past this zone are free game. If any fishing companies pull out of a region to allow the populations to grow, it only opens up opportunities for other companies to come in.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers
And now you have two problems.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
The speeds are 1 gigabit connections. The Dark Knight Blu Ray was approx. 35GiB. At 1 gigabit connections speed it would take 280 seconds in a best case scenario.
That doesn't account for any network overhead and assumes the storage medium can write > 125MiB/s (Pretty much discounting all standard platter drives)
The 5-10 minute figure is reasonable.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: A sexy, secure visualization of password field input
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Announcing Duck It, a new way to search
Speaking of tabs, I often use the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab. While you can left click anywhere on the text to open in the current window, the only place you can middle click is on the small link itself. This feels a bit inconsistent.
Also, the search box is too small for entering anything more than a few words.
On the positive side, the expanded text summaries are nice to find relevant content faster.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: The SSD Improv
Full print-view article:
http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3667
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple
This is just a glorified digital photo screen with embedded controls in the bevel. It has limited internet connectivity through preloaded applications and no browser. Hardly a fair comparison to a real multi-touch tablet, even if it did make it to market first
HP's product sheet shows all of it's features (caution, 5MB PDF) http://www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/ky616aa.pdf
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Sprint to Offer Free Minutes to Any Mobile Phone on Any Carrier
This is really great news for the Sprint data plan users. I have the unlimited everything for $99, but I mostly call other mobile lines. With this change I can drop my plan down to the $69 bracket and still be fine on minutes. The free minutes are added to your plan at the start of the billing cycle if you have one of the unlimited data plans.
With an increase in the use of Skype and Google voice which circumvents the minute counts anyway, Sprint made a good choice to push through with this.
ghoerz | 16 years ago | on: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD
Full, print formatted version of the article:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3631
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I found two Herman Miller Eames chairs being thrown away. The bases were missing, so I pulled two chrome chair bases off some old desk chairs and mounted one of the Eames chairs onto a base.